Re: war and death are in my hand
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 9:13 |
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En réponse à J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>:
>
> Brithenig has a null copula? That would be most unusual for a Western
> Indo-European language (much less a Romance language), wouldn't it? Or
> is
> the deletion of the copula here some sort of rhetorical device?
>
Well, my Romance language Reman has no copula either, the Latin copula has
evolved there to become strictly the auxiliary for imperfect aspect. But Reman
is a strange Romance language anyway, which is so far from other Romance langs
that it has to be considered as its own group (a little like Sardinian), and is
thus certainly not a Western Romance language :) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr